Shadow Captain Quotes

“But it’s the greater fate of the Congregation that concerns me more. Our Occupation, and how it will end. I thought it silly of Rackamore to be troubled by such a distant concern, but I find it much harder to dismiss his fears now. What is the point of any deed, good or otherwise, if this little window of civilisation of ours will soon have its end?”
― Alastair Reynolds, Shadow Captain

“. We crawl out of rocks, set our calendars, make a civilisation, scrabble around for quoins, build our proud little empires, and then one day someone puts too many quoins in the same place and it all comes crashing down.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Shadow Captain

“Better to live in the ruins of empire, I thought, and stand a hope of being remembered, than to be lost in those golden multitudes.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Shadow Captain

“There’s no point delegating a decision if you won’t accept the outcome.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Shadow Captain

“Prozor took the head off her beer with a swipe of her hand, then licked at her palm with an unhurried catlike attentiveness.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Shadow Captain

“Somewhere out beyond the Empty there now shone stars that had been born in gas clouds after this room was decorated. There were stars that had been alive then that were just corpses now, if they had left the least trace of themselves. There was just too much past, too much time that had already happened, and our lives were as nothing against that endless black conveyor belt, ceaselessly rolling, stretching and stretching ever further backward into a dread eternity.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Shadow Captain